'This All Has to Stop': A Retired Police Officer's Message Has Struck a Chord

"This is me at 21 years old. This is the day I graduated from the Detroit police academy at 4:00pm, went home and took a couple hour nap, woke up at 9:30 that night and reported to my first tour of duty at the 12th Precinct for midnight shift. Look at that smile on my face. I couldn't have been more excited, more proud. Armed with my dad's badge that he wore for 25 years on my chest, one of my mom's sergeant stripe patches in my pocket, my lucky $2.00 bill tucked into my bulletproof vest, a gun I was barely old enough to purchase bullets for on my hip and enough naive courage for a small army, I headed out the door...my mom snapped this photo on my way.

The next 17 years would bring plenty of shed blood, black eyes, torn ligaments, stab wounds, stitches, funerals, a head injury, permanent and irreparable nerve damage, 5 ruptured discs, some charming PTSD and depression issues and a whole lot of heartache. They brought missed Christmases with my family, my absence from friends' birthday get-togethers, pricey concert tickets that were forfeited at the last minute because of a late call and many sleepless nights.

I've laid in wet grass on the freeway for three hours watching a team of burglars and orchestrating their apprehension, I've dodged gunfire while running down a dark alley in the middle of the night chasing a shooting suspect, I've argued with women who were too scared to leave their abusive husbands until they realized they had to or they would end up dead.

Merri McGregor you are the picture of what a good American is all about.

Thank you so much.

Lefty tactic making you confirm something for which you’re not guilty.

2 posted on 07/13/2016 2:50:05 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)

Too bad that the people who need to read this never read anything except gang graffiti on walls.

3 posted on 07/13/2016 3:03:49 PM PDT by Bullish (Blame others for your failures? Take credits where none are do? They didn't elect you Pharaoh.)

People who read this must realize that more and more law enforcement personnel are NOT willing to die to protect and serve. Twenty five years ago I started hearing officers say “I’m not doing x”. “I’m going home tonight”.

I have watched that attitude grow along with “I’m not going to sacrifice for: wife, husband, children, country”.

Thank you for doing a job most of us don't even understand, much less being aware that it is going on behind the scenes every day.
However, this country is closing in on a flashpoint that will change us and history forever. Obama is just one of many to orchestrate this . The progressives have joined with BLM, LGBT, and others to bring this to fruition. I just hope the good guys win. I have had this tag like since spring. The handwriting is on the wall (other than gang graffiti) for anyone who has eyes open to see it.
Pray for our Nation.

5 posted on 07/13/2016 3:54:16 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (The Summer of 2016 is going to be interesting...)

I’ve known good police officers. One actually went out of his way to get assistance for me when my car broke down and I got stranded in the mountains and promised to get me home before nightfall.

Let’s have a good word for people who help us when they don’t have to and they don’t even know us.

Cops do more than apprehend criminals and keep us safe from them.

6 posted on 07/14/2016 12:28:38 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))

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